Fason's AP English Language Class: Rhetorical Devices and Terms: Basic List
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| Abstract | show 🗑
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| Analytical | show 🗑
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| Anecdote | show 🗑
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| show | Character or force in a literary work that opposes the main character or protagonist.
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| Argumentation | show 🗑
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| Audience | show 🗑
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| Claim | show 🗑
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| show | Bringing to an end or conclusion.
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| show | Indicates an orderly relationship among the parts in a whole essay or other literary work.
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| show | Refers to sentences, paragraphs, or longer sections of an essay that bring the work to a logial or psychologically satisfying end.
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| Concrete | show 🗑
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| show | What is implied by a word.
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| show | A direct opposition between things compared; inconsistency.
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| Convention | show 🗑
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| show | The dictionary definition of a word.
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| show | A mode of discourse aimed at bringing something to life by telling how it looks, sounds, tates, smells, feels, or acts. Primarily used to enhyance the other modes of discourse and is seldom an end in itself.
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| show | An author's choice of words to convey a tone or effect.
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| show | It makes the most important ideas, characters, themes, or other elements stand out.
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| show | What are the five ways to add emphasis?
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| Proportion | show 🗑
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| show | Repeating something.
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| Mechanical Devices | show 🗑
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| Essay | show 🗑
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| Descriptive, narrative, analytic, and argumentative. | show 🗑
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| Etymology | show 🗑
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| show | Supporting information that explains or proves a point.
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| show | A mode of discourse that exposes information through explaining, defining, or interpreting its subject.
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| show | Language that implies or indicates some other, usually greater, meaning; not literal.
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| show | Retrospection, where an earlier even is inserted into the normal chronology of a narrative.
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| show | To hint at or present things to come in a story or play.
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| Formal Language | show 🗑
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| General and Specific | show 🗑
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| Imagery | show 🗑
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| Introduction | show 🗑
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| show | List 6 things an effective introduction may do.
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| show | A situation or statment characterized by significant difference between what is expected or understood and what actually happens or is meant.
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| show | The strict meaning of a word or words; Not figurative or exaggerated.
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| Mood | show 🗑
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| show | One of the four modes of discourse. It recounts an event or series of interrelated events. The relaying of what happened to someone or something.
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| show | A form of writing that tells a story.
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| show | Refers to the writer's presentation of information in a personally detached, unemotional way.
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| Onomatopoeia | show 🗑
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| Opening | show 🗑
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| Point of View | show 🗑
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| Plot | show 🗑
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| show | The ordinary form of writtten language without metrical structure.
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| show | The main character in a literary work.
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| show | The author's reason for writing.
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| show | The time and place of the action in a literary work.
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| show | A direct comparison between two things- it usually uses "like" or "as."
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| show | List the two purposes of style.
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| show | A condensation of main ideas from a given work that is uaully much shorter than the origianl. It seeks to reaveal only the major points an author has made in a piece of writing.
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| show | Focus statment of an essay; premise statement upon which the point of view or discussion in the essay is based.
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